Anaid Posted 21 years ago
Vocabulary
Little / small
Hi!!!!
It´s my first time using this....
and I would like to know
what´s the diference between little and small ??
It´s my first time using this....
and I would like to know
what´s the diference between little and small ??
Top answer
Hello, Anaid, welcome! One thing I can already tell you is that I've been taught "little" cannot be used as a predicate. * the house is little: NO the house is small: YES
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Hello, Anaid, welcome!
One thing I can already tell you is that I've been taught "little" cannot be used as a predicate.
* the house is little: NO
the house is small: YES
One thing I can already tell you is that I've been taught "little" cannot be used as a predicate.
* the house is little: NO
the house is small: YES
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Hello,
You are right chere amie, I remember that I had a question in the same line, but I got the answer through another source. The answer is that small is a central adjective, and little is a peripheral adjective. A central adjective can be both attributive and predicative, where a peripheral adjective can only appear in one or other of these positions. Cheers.
You are right chere amie, I remember that I had a question in the same line, but I got the answer through another source. The answer is that small is a central adjective, and little is a peripheral adjective. A central adjective can be both attributive and predicative, where a peripheral adjective can only appear in one or other of these positions. Cheers.
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Okay x. and pieanne, please help me out here. I am not a trained linguist or English teacher. However, I have been speaking (American) English for some 50 years and have never heard of peripheral adjectives! From this thread and the one in the "general questions" board I have pieced together the following:
"Central" adjectives can be used either attributively or predicatively:
"Central" adjectives can be used either attributively or predicatively:
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Hello,Mrs Khoff,
By your last declaration, I am excluded from this debate. Thank you.
By your last declaration, I am excluded from this debate. Thank you.
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X. mehrdad - I'm sorry, you misunderstood me, or I was just not very clear. Most of my post was directed especially to you and to Pieanne, because you have explained so well this part of English grammar that I did not know about. I certainly want to hear your reaction, and hers. It was only as an afterthought that I wondered if other native speakers shared my feeling about the usage of "little
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X.Mehrdad, you shouldn't feel excluded from the discussion more than I am! Have you noticed that I'm nota native speaker either,
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Hello Mrs.Khoff, Hello pieanne,
I am not vexed or anything like that, and I would like to know the other native speakers' opinions on all the issues that we are discussing here, you know, for the native speakers,
English is like a fully furnished house, where they are born, and they seldom ask themselves why these things are there and what is the reason for all that, where as f
I am not vexed or anything like that, and I would like to know the other native speakers' opinions on all the issues that we are discussing here, you know, for the native speakers,
English is like a fully furnished house, where they are born, and they seldom ask themselves why these things are there and what is the reason for all that, where as f
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Hello again,
Concerning 'small' and 'little', as I recently learned, it seems that 'little' specially looks odd when used in predicative function, in comparative form: 'This house is more little than mine'. Cheers
Concerning 'small' and 'little', as I recently learned, it seems that 'little' specially looks odd when used in predicative function, in comparative form: 'This house is more little than mine'. Cheers
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Hi, X. - I'm glad you're back. I would agree that "this house is more little than mine" sounds awkward.
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